Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the period from Christmas to the end of February — MMT 's accounting period for the first six months of its fiscal year ends then — was very quiet because a lot of orders were completed around that time , Haines says trading has now picked up again . |
| 2 | A number of thick pillars , shrouded in a miasmic fuzz of mould , were placed around as roof supports while , in the centre of the chamber , was a circle of more squared-off pillars , as if someone had decided to use a megalithic circle as a set of buttresses . |
| 3 | Her thoughts were twirling around and , however much she told herself that all that astrology stuff was nonsense , she could not prevent the doubts that had taken root and now refused to be urged away . |
| 4 | Yeah , but it was a , it was also a ver it was a bit of a celebrity , I mean it was people , people were crushed around , bloody hell I mean |
| 5 | Nationalist and feminist women in Northern Ireland were organizing around basic issues of survival . |
| 6 | As he spoke his eyes were darting around and between the trees , seeking their own answer . |
| 7 | When I 'd called in at Sunil 's place after Prentice had driven off , Nassim was on the landing yelling orders to the builders who were crashing around in the bathroom . |
| 8 | I think to the top end , then those of you who were struggling around with D syndrome at moment , you know let's get you pushed in there . |
| 9 | They were to drive around a marked circuit whilst keeping a ball in a dish on the bonnet . |
| 10 | But tonight his thoughts were stamping around his mind wearing heavy boots . |
| 11 | At last we arrived at his car , where several other walkers were hanging around looking dolefully along the road . |
| 12 | They would then find that they were hanging around for hours and the crafty ones would try to find a prop bed to catch up on some sleep . |
| 13 | He had approached the five or six youths , who were hanging around his car , a gold Ford Escort Estate . |
| 14 | The Chancellor 's admission that the PSBR will reach £50 billion in 1993 is no more than City economists were bandying around last autumn . |
| 15 | Words like freedom and rights were bandied around on both sides . |
| 16 | Saturday was jam packed : we were flown around in helicopters , transported in army trucks and taught abseiling . |
| 17 | The houses were scattered around , low-slung , timbered , with a thatched roof and small porch ; it was a village scene similar to many Corbett had seen elsewhere except for the small dark people , their furtive looks and quiet ways . |
| 18 | We were driving around and I seen these two young lads in a car and I says , ‘ They look a bit young to be driving that . ’ |
| 19 | He was on patrol with two other UN military observers when the mine exploded as they were driving around a small bridge a few miles north of the temples in Siem Reap province . |
| 20 | Erm but the the old grey hairs like me were leaping around and . |
| 21 | Over the next twenty years its hosiery products and other goods were utilising around twenty wagon services to Bristol , Birmingham , Northampton , Stamford and Cambridge as well as more than 200 serving surrounding districts . |
| 22 | They were grouped around a la white metal table piled with gewgaws , hair ornaments , earrings , a necklace . |
| 23 | The first purpose-built offices in the Square Mile were designed around 150 years ago . |
| 24 | One particular sadistic character opened up his observation hatch while we were groping around a smoke filled tank , looked in with a satanic grin and shouted , " Ha ! |
| 25 | There were a lot of mad parties — I 'd be invited to quite a few of them , and people were walking around a lot of the time saying : ‘ Hey man , I 'm an orange … . ’ |
| 26 | Well-dressed men and women were walking around , almost everyone wearing the ubiquitous fur hat and huge pictures of Lenin looked down from hoardings . |
| 27 | Yet it seems quite certain that our direct ancestors were walking around on two feet with an upright posture like our own at least four million years ago and no creature in the non-human line of descent seems ever to have done that . |
| 28 | The malai 's men were crowding around now , with bad intent . |
| 29 | For all the rise in the number of births , and despite some medical advances , potential causes of a premature death were lurking around every corner , or sweeping the country in periodic epidemics ; especially vulnerable were the very young , the old and the infirm . |
| 30 | They were paraded around while householders took their pick , a routine familiar to refugee children who had passed through Dovercourt . |